Attorney General Eric Holder delivered the opening remarks to participants at the "Passport to Re-entry" event on October 17, 2009. Holder, on behalf of himself and President Obama, commended the participants for their commitment to finding solutions to complex problems associated with crime prevention and re-entry. He encouraged participants to move beyond rhetoric and labels in order to be "smart on crime" and evaluate the success or failure of programs fairly and honestly...
Forty years ago, Mimi Silbert founded the Delancey Street Foundation, a San Francisco residential training center for drug abusers, ex-convicts and the homeless. Now celebrated as one of the most successful rehabilitation programs in the U.S., Delancey Street's residents run a popular restaurant, a moving service and other businesses.
Delancey has an annual budget of about $18 million. It houses and educates some 2,000 people at any given time in San Francisco and satellite operations in Los Angeles, New Mexico, North Carolina, New York and Massachusetts.
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